When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.
I enjoyed biology in high school, and that brought me to a research lab at U.C. Santa Barbara. I loved doing experiments, and I had fun with them. I realized this kind of problem-solving fit my intellectual style.
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
To my disappointment, not many young people seem to be interested in science, especially chemistry.
By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.
From my earliest days, I was fascinated by science.
One of the reasons I'm so passionate about science is that it wasn't correctly taught to me. I got excited at university.
All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.
From my earliest days I had a passion for science.
When I was in elementary school, I was very interested in science already. I must have been ten or eleven years old. I started experiments with chemistry sets at my home in Mexico. I was able to borrow a bathroom and convert it to a laboratory. My parents supported it. They were pleased. My friends just tolerated it.